<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="https://medium.com/@citizenstrade/nationalism-has-nothing-to-offer-working-americans-920c0646d9e5" class="">https://medium.com/@citizenstrade/nationalism-has-nothing-to-offer-working-americans-920c0646d9e5</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 name="ca3e" id="ca3e" class="graf--leading graf graf--h3 graf--title" style="font-size: 42px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -2.63px; font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Geneva, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.015em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137); line-height: 1.04; padding-top: 5px !important;">Nationalism Has Nothing to Offer Working Americans</h1><div class="u-lineHeightTightest" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1 !important;"><br class=""></div><div class="u-lineHeightTightest" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137); font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1 !important;"><a class="ds-link link--darken link ui-captionStrong ds-link--styleSubtle link--darker u-inlineBlock" href="https://medium.com/@citizenstrade?source=post_header_lockup" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-source="post_header_lockup" data-action-value="2c5dac8e33ab" data-action-type="hover" data-user-id="2c5dac8e33ab" dir="auto" style="text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137) !important; display: inline-block !important; fill: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8431372549019608) !important; font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Geneva, Arial, sans-serif !important; letter-spacing: 0px !important; font-size: 16px !important; line-height: 20px !important;">Arthur Stamoulis</a></div><div class="js-testPostMetaInlineSupplemental ui-caption postMetaInline" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.4; font-family: medium-content-sans-serif-font, 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Geneva, Arial, sans-serif !important; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.541176) !important; fill: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5411764705882353) !important;"><time datetime="2018-10-30T14:23:57.366Z" class="">Oct 30</time></div><p name="f8dd" id="f8dd" class="graf--p graf-after--figure graf" style="margin: 38px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">Last Monday, Donald Trump proudly <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/412649-trump-you-know-what-i-am-im-a-nationalist?fbclid=IwAR0JcJBYCy0v369Awcthha7gPtx5hz5CozmxB9AjQ8vdGOjGA7cpxlv9zgE" data-href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/412649-trump-you-know-what-i-am-im-a-nationalist?fbclid=IwAR0JcJBYCy0v369Awcthha7gPtx5hz5CozmxB9AjQ8vdGOjGA7cpxlv9zgE" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">declared himself a nationalist</a> in front of a crowd of enthusiastic supporters who responded by chanting, “USA! USA!”</p><p name="b603" id="b603" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">After decades of outsourcing and wage suppression, fueled by trade policies enacted by our own government, Americans are right to want something other than business-as-usual out of our elected officials.</p><p name="6440" id="6440" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">But nationalism will not provide the good-paying jobs and healthy communities that Americans desperately need. What’s more, the degree of separation between flag-waving nationalism and hate-filled white nationalism in the United States these days is so small t<span style="letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58;" class="">hat they are effectively the same thing.</span></p><p name="9cbf" id="9cbf" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">On its face, nationalism is the concept that our shared nationality is the core characteristic that ties us together.</p><p name="3e8b" id="3e8b" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">But the idea that working Americans have more in common with billionaires like the Trumps, the Waltons and other corporate elites than with working people in other countries is so obviously wrong-headed, the only way for the concept to gain traction is for politicians to simultaneously appeal to things like xenophobia, racism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.</p><p name="7409" id="7409" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">During his nationalism speech in Houston, Trump explicitly juxtaposed his “America First” politics with those he called <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/412649-trump-you-know-what-i-am-im-a-nationalist?fbclid=IwAR0JcJBYCy0v369Awcthha7gPtx5hz5CozmxB9AjQ8vdGOjGA7cpxlv9zgE" data-href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/412649-trump-you-know-what-i-am-im-a-nationalist?fbclid=IwAR0JcJBYCy0v369Awcthha7gPtx5hz5CozmxB9AjQ8vdGOjGA7cpxlv9zgE" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">“corrupt, power-hungry globalists.”</a></p><p name="3118" id="3118" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">Globalist is a term that is <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-how-did-the-term-globalist-became-an-anti-semitic-slur-blame-bannon-1.5895925" data-href="https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-how-did-the-term-globalist-became-an-anti-semitic-slur-blame-bannon-1.5895925" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">steeped in anti-Semitism</a>. And, during his speech, Trump <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/412649-trump-you-know-what-i-am-im-a-nationalist?fbclid=IwAR0JcJBYCy0v369Awcthha7gPtx5hz5CozmxB9AjQ8vdGOjGA7cpxlv9zgE" data-href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/412649-trump-you-know-what-i-am-im-a-nationalist?fbclid=IwAR0JcJBYCy0v369Awcthha7gPtx5hz5CozmxB9AjQ8vdGOjGA7cpxlv9zgE" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">defined a globalist </a>as “a person who wants the globe to do well, frankly, not caring about our country so much.”</p><p name="af2b" id="af2b" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">Let’s be clear here: the problem with the modern trade policies like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is not that they are international in orientation. Nor, despite Trump’s repeated claims, do free trade pacts benefit other countries ahead of the United States.</p><p name="ea27" id="ea27" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">Rather, pacts like NAFTA are designed to benefit big corporations at the expense of working people in every country.</p><p name="e837" id="e837" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">Trump’s speech came the same day he <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1054351078328885248" data-href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1054351078328885248" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">tweeted out charges</a> that a caravan of Central American refugees heading towards the United States was mixed with “Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners.”</p><p name="308f" id="308f" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">At one point in the days prior, Trump had even <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1052888451199262725" data-href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1052888451199262725" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">implied that he would blow up his pending NAFTA renegotiation proposal</a> if Mexico did not prevent the refugees from reaching the U.S., a threat that <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lindsey-graham-warns-mexico-stop-the-caravan-or-trade-deal-is-at-risk" data-href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lindsey-graham-warns-mexico-stop-the-caravan-or-trade-deal-is-at-risk" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">other Republican leaders have since echoed</a>.</p><p name="1ebe" id="1ebe" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">But at no point did Trump bother to acknowledge the serious harm that NAFTA and the subsequent Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) cause throughout Latin America and that both pacts are major drivers of increased migration.</p><p name="bcf0" id="bcf0" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">As bad as NAFTA and CAFTA have been for working Americans, they have been even worse for our brothers and sisters to the south.</p><p name="d914" id="d914" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">NAFTA and CAFTA flooded Mexican and Central American markets with subsidized corn, wheat and soy from the U.S., <a href="http://replacenafta.org/issues/devastation-in-mexico/" data-href="http://replacenafta.org/issues/devastation-in-mexico/" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">forcing literally millions of family farmers off their land.</a></p><p name="6301" id="6301" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">The pacts also allowed huge U.S. corporations like Walmart to move in, driving <a href="http://replacenafta.org/issues/devastation-in-mexico/" data-href="http://replacenafta.org/issues/devastation-in-mexico/" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">tens of thousands of additional small- and mid-sized Latin American employers out of business</a>.</p><p name="5c3b" id="5c3b" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">Large <a href="https://www.citizen.org/our-work/globalization-and-trade/50-reasons-why-we-need-to-replace-nafta" data-href="https://www.citizen.org/our-work/globalization-and-trade/50-reasons-why-we-need-to-replace-nafta" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">U.S. employers continue to move jobs from the U.S. to Latin America</a>under these pacts in order to take advantage of sweatshop working conditions and lax environmental laws, but it is the corporations who have profited, not Latin American workers.</p><p name="250e" id="250e" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">Real <a href="https://www.citizen.org/sites/default/files/naftas-mexico-legacy_1.pdf" data-href="https://www.citizen.org/sites/default/files/naftas-mexico-legacy_1.pdf" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">wages in Mexico are lower today</a> than before NAFTA was enacted. These race-to-the-bottom trade deals are hurting working people everywhere.</p><p name="7014" id="7014" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">Trump has said, “<a href="https://twitter.com/mmcassella/status/1056318023118794752" data-href="https://twitter.com/mmcassella/status/1056318023118794752" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">I’m not making you fair trade deals</a>. I’m making you unfair trade deals in our favor.”</p><p name="3929" id="3929" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">But in whose favor is he speaking?</p><p name="ed33" id="ed33" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">After more than a year-and-a-half of secretive, back-room negotiations aided by hundreds of corporate advisors, the Trump administration finally published <a href="https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/united-states-mexico-canada-agreement/united-states-mexico" data-href="https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/united-states-mexico-canada-agreement/united-states-mexico" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">the texts of its NAFTA rebrand</a> several weeks ago.</p><p name="b104" id="b104" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">Trump’s NAFTA 2.0 proposal <a href="https://www.citizen.org/potentially-lethal-new-nafta-ip-chapter-requires-10-year-biologics-monopolies-worst-such-rule-us-fta" data-href="https://www.citizen.org/potentially-lethal-new-nafta-ip-chapter-requires-10-year-biologics-monopolies-worst-such-rule-us-fta" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">expands monopoly rights for pharmaceutical giants</a>. It <a href="https://www.citizen.org/sites/default/files/nafta-text-analysis.pdf" data-href="https://www.citizen.org/sites/default/files/nafta-text-analysis.pdf" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">weakens regulations in the financial sector.</a> It <a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2018/10/trump-s-climate-denying-nafta-proposal-would-perpetuate-outsourcing-pollution" data-href="https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2018/10/trump-s-climate-denying-nafta-proposal-would-perpetuate-outsourcing-pollution" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">carves out special rights for oil and gas companies</a>. It <a href="https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/news/nafta-reboot-threatens-food-safety-promotes-fracking-and-gmos" data-href="https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/news/nafta-reboot-threatens-food-safety-promotes-fracking-and-gmos" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">undermines food safety</a>.</p><p name="89a5" id="89a5" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">Perhaps most importantly, Trump’s NAFTA proposal <a href="https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/agreements/FTA/AdvisoryCommitteeReports/Labor%20Advisory%20Committee%20on%20Trade%20Negotiations%20and%20Trade%20Policy%20%28LAC%29.pdf" data-href="https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/agreements/FTA/AdvisoryCommitteeReports/Labor%20Advisory%20Committee%20on%20Trade%20Negotiations%20and%20Trade%20Policy%20%28LAC%29.pdf" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">fails to include the strong labor and environmental with swift and certain enforcement </a>needed to protect jobs and raise wages.</p><p name="d385" id="d385" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">As should be clear, the interests of U.S.-based mega-corporations are most definitely not the same interests of most of America’s working families.</p><p name="5e31" id="5e31" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">And while there is a lot in our country’s history to be proud about, working Americans need to see through xenophobia wrapped in a flag to recognize that many of our interests do align with those of working people abroad.</p><p name="4f15" id="4f15" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">If we really want to stop outsourcing, we need trade policies that support worker rights and protect the environment across borders. Ending the global race to the bottom is a fundamental part of improving wages and strengthening communities here at home.</p><p name="75e0" id="75e0" class="graf--p graf-after--p graf" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">Less than a week after Trump’s nationalism speech, a man <a href="https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting/h_0c180f52c8d032fd47eef570cc5065c2" data-href="https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting/h_0c180f52c8d032fd47eef570cc5065c2" class="markup--p-anchor markup--anchor" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="color: inherit; text-decoration: none; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.682353) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-size: 2px 0.1em; background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;">enraged that Jews were supposedly backing the migrant caravan</a> that Trump railed against entered a synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdered eleven people. The massacre capped a week filled with right-wing attacks on Black and Jewish Americans.</p><p name="8e71" id="8e71" class="graf--trailing graf graf--p graf-after--p" style="margin: 29px 0px 0px; font-family: medium-content-serif-font, Georgia, Cambria, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.58; letter-spacing: -0.003em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.843137);">Nationalism is an ugly, divisive ideology that has nothing to offer working Americans. When we allow politicians, and the corporations they serve, to pit working people against each other, they win and we lose.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>